LGBTQ

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• SOURCE: Miami Herald
  2/17/2023
  

  Florida Students Plan Walkouts in Protest of Administrators' Cooperation With DeSantis Trans Crackdown

  Six colleges are known to have complied with a request by the governor's office for information about health services provided to transgender students, which student leaders say is part of a threat to gender-affirming healthcare in the state. 

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• SOURCE: ProPublica
  6/5/2020
  

  New Trump Appointee to Foreign Aid Agency Has Denounced Liberal Democracy and “Our Homo-Empire”

  Merritt Corrigan, USAID’s new deputy White House liaison, has condemned the “tyrannical LGBT agenda” and celebrated Hungary’s right-wing prime minister as “the shining champion of Western civilization.”

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/16/19
  

  ‘Like chasing shadows’: Uncovering Colonial Williamsburg’s LGBTQ history

  Researchers plan to comb through available court documents, particularly from trials for those prosecuted under sodomy laws, as well as uncover other clues that can be found in letters or in poetry and art.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  November 7, 2019
  

  Germany may pass a ban on conversion therapy — a turning point in a dark history of LGBTQ rights

  Germany's minister on health is trying to ban conversion therapy.  

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  October 8, 2019
  

  The Supreme Court must extend the Civil Rights Act’s protections to LGBTQ employees

  by Katherine Turk

  It shouldn’t be legal to fire somebody for their sexual orientation or gender identity.  

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• SOURCE: The Orange County Register
  9/19/19
  

  Eric Gonzaba Uses T-shirts, address books to explore LGBTQ history

  by Susan Gill Vardon

  Dr. Gonzaba is excited about finding ways to involve his students in a project he has been working on since 2014 — Wearing Gay History, an award-winning digital mapping project that explores the global history of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people through T-shirts.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  August 5, 2019
  

  How the black press helped pave the way for gay rights

  by Timothy Stewart-Winter

  The Chicago Defender’s LGBTQ legacy.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  06/29/2019
  

  ‘When They See Us’ tells the important story of the Central Park Five. Here’s what it leaves out.

  Read what Netflix's documentary got right and wrong. 

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• SOURCE: History Channel
  June 25, 2019
  

  How Dressing in Drag Was Labeled a Crime in the 20th Century

  by Hugh Ryan

  In the 1940s, '50s and '60s, police arrested LGBTQ people based on an informal "three-article" rule. The Stonewall Riots helped turn the tide against these arrests.

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• SOURCE: Frieze
  June 24, 2019
  

  The Untold Queer History of California

  by Bryony White

  Vital indigenous perspectives are highlighted in an exhibition of art and activism at the Oakland Museum, which spans the state’s colonial past to the present.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  June 19, 2019
  

  The Photographer Who Captured 20th-Century Queer Life

  by Hannah Giorgis

  Joan E. Biren’s images from the ’70s and ’80s—which appear in the new exhibit “Art After Stonewall”—reflect an effort to document and encourage lesbian love.

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• SOURCE: Time
  6/6/19
  

  The 'Counter-Textbooks' Offering Kids a Radical Look at History

  Demand for “counter-textbooks” has been fueled by factors including student desire for more diverse stories and requirements like the California law that now mandates LGBT-inclusive social-studies curriculums.

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• SOURCE: Process History
  06/03/2019
  

  Remembering the Stonewall Rebellion

  by Marc Stein

  Understand the background of the Stonewall Rebellion before its fiftieth anniversary. 

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• SOURCE: Time
  http://time.com/5579971/christopher-st-stonewall-h
  

  50 Years After Stonewall, We’re Still Disagreeing About What Happened There. That’s Why the Archives Matter

  by Jason Baumann

  Given the tremendous gains made by LGBTQ activists in the intervening years, it can be difficult for people to remember the oppression suffered by LGBTQ people in the United States in the 1950s and ’60s. 

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• 3/17/19
  

  The Antigay "Traditional Plan" and the History of the Methodist Church

  by Christopher M. Bishop

  Until this month, slavery was the only other issue that seriously threatened the unity of American Methodism.

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• SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  3/10/19
  

  God once opposed interracial marriage, too

  by Jonathon Zimmerman

  The Methodist Church turned away from human equality last week. It's on the wrong side of history, but it will right itself soon enough.

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• SOURCE: Them
  3/5/19
  

  Historian Hugh Ryan's New Book Documents the Queer History of Brooklyn

  by Hugh Ryan

  From a gay Nazi spy sex scandal to its WWII antifascist queer intelligentsia scene, a new book reveals that Brooklyn has always been a surprisingly queer haven.

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• 8-3-14
  

  Is This How We're Going to Learn Queer History in the Future?

  by Sarah Prager

  No. It's how we're learning it now.